Research Interests for Avshalom Caspi

Research Interests:

Keywords:
Behavioral genetics , Life-span developmental psychology , Children’s mental health , Personality assessment, Health psychology, Longitudinal methodology
Representative Publications
  1. Caspi, A., Williams, B., Kim-Cohen, J., Craig, I.W., Milne, B.J., Poulton, R., Schalkwyk, L.C., Taylor, A., Werts, H., & Moffitt, T.E, Nature, nuture, & the IQ: Genetic variation in fatty acid metabolism moderates the association between breastfeeding and children's cognitive development, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), vol. 104 (2007), pp. 18860-18865.
  2. Danese, A., Pariante, C., Caspi, A., Taylor, A., & Poulton, R, Childhood maltreatment predicts adult inflammation in a life course study, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), vol. 104 (2007), pp. 1319-1324.
  3. Roberts, B. W., Kuncel, N. R., Shiner, R., Caspi, A., & Goldberg, L. R, The power of personality: The comparative predictive validity of personality traits, SES, and cognitive ability for important life outcomes, Perspectives on Psychological Science, vol. 2 (2007), pp. 313-315.
  4. Kim-Cohen, J., Caspi, A.., Williams, B., Taylor, A., Newcombe, R., Craig, I. W., & Moffitt, T. E, MAOA, maltreatment and gene-environment interaction predicting children's mental health: New evidence and a meta-analysis, Molecular Psychiatry, vol. 11 (2006), pp. 903-913.
  5. Arseneault, L., Milne, B., Taylor, A., Adams, F., Delgado, K., Caspi, A., & Moffitt, T.E, Evidence that bullying victimization in an environmentally-mediated contributing factor to children's internalizing problems: A study of twins discordant for victimization, Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, vol. 162 (2008), pp. 145-150.